Manual handling causes over a third of all workplace injuries. These include work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) such as pain and injuries to arms, legs and joints, and repetitive strain injuries of various sorts.
The term manual handling covers a wide variety of activities including lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying. If any of these tasks are not carried out appropriately there is a risk of injury

COURSE INTRODUCTION

Manual handling injuries can have serious implications for the employer and the person who has been injured. They can occur almost anywhere in the workplace and heavy manual labor, awkward postures, repetitive movements of arms, legs and back or previous/existing injury can increase the risk. To help prevent manual handling injuries in the workplace, you should avoid such tasks as far as possible. However, where it is not possible to avoid handling a load, employers must look at the risks of that task and put sensible health and safety measures in place to prevent and avoid injury.

OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE

At the end of this course, you will be able to :
• Assess all steps in work activities and list all ergonomics concerns that might compromise the safety and health aspects
• Mitigate ergonomics risk based on priority
• Reduce the amount of twisting, stooping, reaching, pushing, carrying and pulling
• Assess the weight to be carried and whether the worker can move the load safely or needs any help

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Safety Managers and Personnel
• Safety and Health Committee Members
• All ground and/or field workers
• All employees who have manual tasks

THE TRAINING METHODOLOGIES

Theory Session
• Dynamic & Highly Engaging Presentation
• Interactive and Fun
• Engaging audio-visual aids; real scene photographs, video clips, multimedia presentation
• Demonstration Session

Practical Session
• Hands-on experience
• Participant centered

Experiential Learning
• Scenario based Learning